I'm speechless! Víctima is always feminine no matter what the sex of the victim is. Pretty soon they'll start saying el persona (or even worse el persono when it refers to a man.

Wow! Google has 1400 pages in Spanish for el víctima. What's going on? This is worse than preferir sobre.

What the heck! In Portuguese too? . . . I'd better go lie down.

Brazilian dude

Well, your first link is Univision. Isn't that a US station? Maybe their Spanish speakers or translators just aren't up to snuff!

Words like that are take a bit odd for an English speaker. Even in French a victim is always une victime. When one has three genders to work with, like Latin and English, the concept of using feminine noun for a masculine person takes some getting used to.

Regards//Larry

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee

Not only victims, but also professors have been victims of this gender slippage. «Professor» is of masculine gender, whatever the gender of individual professors may be, but Google gives 501000 responses for a search with «professor emerita» (26600000 for one with «professor emeritus»). The same people who argue that gender is a social construct seem to believe that it is biological when it comes to languages. Go figure !...

I think that the use of "la primer" is probably a left over from older Spanish (although I am not sure about this). Latin American Spanish still maintains some very old forms, particularly in Argentina. A very interesting and funny example of the diferences between Argentinian Spanish and Iberian Spanish is this small dictionary.

Anyway, I still dislike "la primer", which I heard for the first time while I was living in Argentina over twenty years ago.

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